Katherine Dee
@defaultfriend.bsky.social
big art bell fan. internet culture reporter all over & default.blog
Very excited about Interface Studies by @mskayyali.com—videos explicating and discussing ideas and problems in user interface design. buff.ly/laz8yko (via @kevinlynagh.com—thanks!!)
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Whatever happened to woke? A virtual roundtable featuring @kattenbarge.bsky.social, @parkermolloy.com, @defaultfriend.bsky.social, @scaachi.bsky.social, @audreyhorne.bsky.social, @mannyfidel.bsky.social, @maxtani.bsky.social, Josh Lora, and Sean Monahan riffpost.substack.com/p/is-speech-...
Is speech freer now, five years into the ‘vibe shift’?
A virtual roundtable on wokeism, AI, Israel, and much more, featuring Parker Molloy, Sean Monahan, Katherine Dee, and six other outspoken voices in media.
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I think @defaultfriend.bsky.social has written a lot on the expansion of 'Fandom' beyond nerdy franchises, and how that framework of both gatekeeping and inclusion create a really powerful dynamic, often short-circuiting actual discourse into just talking past each other.
@defaultfriend.bsky.social is back! "Freezing in Boca Raton, Florida: On astronauts, cold metal, and Florida Man." thedispatch.com/article/boca... #culture #america #florida
Freezing in Boca Raton, Florida
On astronauts, cold metal, and Florida Man.
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I thought Paul Singer and Peter Singer were the same guy until 2 minutes ago
I am a scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi as well as Professor of Marketing at Concordia University
Great service, unpretentious food, unapologetic celebration of American music and culture. Ever wonder why they made you stop going here?
I now know that the author of this piece requested a galley of “The Last Straight Woman” in JANUARY.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy@phoebebovy.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere’s Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o... Wow someone should write a book about that
(getting off at the wrong train stop) where the hell are we My buddy who's convinced he's a time traveler: not where... when My other buddy who's convinced he's a deer: let's cross that delightful highway
Hard to read this @defaultfriend.bsky.social column (“We are Sliding Back Into the Middle Ages”) without thinking about Carl Sagan’s 1996 book “A Demon Haunted World” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o... Sagan: archive.org/details/demo...
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The world we’re moving into will look more like the one before the modern era than like the one we grew up in,” Katya Ungerman writes. “It will be saturated with the supernatural. Everyone will believe in something. The question is in what.”
Opinion | Demon Attacks. Teleportation. Astrology. The Supernatural Is Back.
One of the oldest and most durable features of human experience is re-emerging.
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I'm not a subscriber of the NYT but if you do check this out. Also, get well soon, Kat.
Katherine Dee@defaultfriend.bsky.social · 3mo agoI’m in the NY Times today on hospital reiki, teleporting to Waffle Houses, and “non-human biologics.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...
I’m in the NY Times today on hospital reiki, teleporting to Waffle Houses, and “non-human biologics.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...
Opinion | You Aren’t Crazy. The World Is Actually Getting Weirder.
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Katherine @defaultfriend.bsky.social is on a roll this week, now in a defense of Bluesky at @unherd.com unherd.com/newsroom/col...
Cole Allen wasn’t radicalised by Bluesky
Cole Allen appeared in court yesterday following his thwarted shooting at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night. As is so often the case now, the first thing uncovered about him after the incident w...
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Great @defaultfriend.bsky.social piece: "Plenty of what circulates on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube is funny and inventive, made by girls for other girls, surviving precisely because it doesn’t require a corporation’s approval" www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tw...
Essay | In Defense of Tween Screen Time
Every generation panics about girlhood. The latest, over the negative consequences of social media for tweens, hides a bigger problem in girl world: They’ve got nothing else.
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This 2024 piece from @defaultfriend.bsky.social does an excellent job of capturing the cultural shift we're experiencing right now as we move decisively from a cultural environment structured by the mass media to one structured by networked digital media.
No, Culture is Not Stuck
You just can't see what it's become.
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The always interesting @defaultfriend.bsky.social , on the shifting “Overton Window” for fringe beliefs. When a politician mentions “demons”, how do you react? (Personally, I do not believe in the supernatural. Not my upbringing.) unherd.com/newsroom/jd-...
JD Vance UFO claim reflects mainstreaming of alternative beliefs
This week, Vice President JD Vance appeared on the conservative podcast, The Benny Show, and professed that he believed aliens were demons. There are two easy reads here. The first is that Vance was j...
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"Alt kids are the social fabric of the most economically depressed, culturally conservative corners of America and have been for a very long time...My son is now jumping on me, literally, so until next time, Deeists." No paywall, please read this study of South Florida over the last 30 years.
Katherine Dee@defaultfriend.bsky.social · 5mo agoya girl weighed in on dinergoths: default.blog/p/against-am...
We’re Underestimating Gavin Newsom: The California governor has the ‘it’ factor. And he knows it. | Katherine Dee https://thedispatch.com/article/gavin-newsom-internet-fan-culture-empty/
We’re Underestimating Gavin Newsom
The California governor has the ‘it’ factor. And he knows it.
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"The term I want to propose is mediated murderer: a perpetrator who, without physical co-presence, uses networked communication as the primary instrument by which he establishes coercive control over a specific victim and drives that victim toward death." Tough read, FBI materials.
Katherine Dee@defaultfriend.bsky.social · 5mo agoI had a theory over the weekend: default.blog/p/the-mediat...
@defaultfriend.bsky.social last year wrote about psychological adaptions to online life which look like psychological disorders in offline line: "This is the internet: it demands a disposition that appears 'sick' in the physical world."
Internet Overexposure Syndrome
What appear to be psychological disorders among those who spend much of their life online may in fact be rational responses to their environment.
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Is AO3 *actually* a private space or are fans being a bunch of babies? I investigate: www.gq.com/story/heated...
Do Normies Have a Right to Read ‘Heated Rivalry’ Fanfic?
The culture that fandom built won, writes Katherine Dee. But the privacy and community that made fandoms possible is vanishing—and some fans are revolting.
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